The document discusses InnoEnergy's approach to integrating education, research, and business/innovation in the "Knowledge Triangle." Traditional higher education is seen as too separated, with science, business, and other courses stacked on top of each other. InnoEnergy aims to fully integrate entrepreneurship, innovation, management, and business models into energy engineering curricula through student-centered and active learning. This includes driving students to create energy businesses through innovation projects and internships. The goal is to establish InnoEnergy as the leading sustainable energy educational program worldwide by transferring education into modern job skills through an interactive learning approach using various digital tools and media. Student success stories are highlighted from competitions and entrepreneurial

1. Maghrenov Kick-Off Meeting
The InnoEnergy approach to organize
teaching and learning in the Knowledge
Triangle
16.12.2013, Barcelona
Torsten Fransson
Educational Director
KIC-InnoEnergy
EIT

2. Education “As Is”
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Traditional higher education in Europe is good!
• But education is very”traditional”, and goes slow on pedagogical innovation
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”Industrial management” students succeed often very well in industry
• But science and business courses often only ”stacked upon” each other
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Many students have extremely good innovative ideas
• Unfortunately the ideas are not “taken care” of during their education
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Spin-offs come out of universities
• Spin-offs too seldom successful, from Ph D level and too seldom “world-wide”
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Industry/university participate in Life-Long Learning
• Seldom fully integrated, not using the high potential of dynamic modern didactics
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High-level research results find its way into teaching at universities
• Yes, but extremely seldom outside the individual professor doing the research
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3. EIT Label
• EIT labelled degrees and diplomas are based on the Knowledge triangle
meaning a true integrating of education, research and business/innovation.
Innovation & Business
Creation
Education
Research &
Infrastructure
• Strong focus on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship and build on a
set of specific quality criteria and overarching learning outcomes.
• This model consists of a set of quality indicators divided into individual
assessment fields.
• EIT’s mission is also to elaborate on the models that enable this impact to
materialise – EIT as role model for integrating all parts and all actors of the
knowledge triangle.

4. EIT Label Criteria: Student-centered education

5. InnoEnergy Education “To Be”:
A paradigm shift
EIT/KIC label programs attributes
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Set a new standard by full integration of entrepreneurship, innovation,
management, business models into the energy engineering curricula
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And also social/psychological issues in education
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Establish ”student-centered” and ”aligned” education
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Include innovation projects into the MSc and Ph D courses with ”active
learning”
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Drive students to create energy businesses, fail and re-start
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Address both students and mid career professionals
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Use modern pedagogical tools for ”students without borders”, on-campus &
LLL, including “borderless” incubators (game-line environments?)
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Integrate industrial companies into the education by internships, hands-on
experiences, combination MSc/PhD level research (SME’s & large industry)
• IE objective to become the main sustainable energy
educational “engine” in the world

6. InnoEnergy Education View
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7. Integration Education/Innovation:
The KIC InnoEnergy Highway™
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8. InnoEnergy Education:
Achievements 2012
7 Master programs up running
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Intakes: 32 (2010); 108 (2011); 166 (2012); 110 (2013)
Significant number of students in industry internships (not yet all)
6 PhD programs up running
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Total 80 PhD candidates presently
Almost all in innovation projects
3 ”Executive” programs up running
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Accumulated 50 students till date
Buttom up approach partner learning material for common promotion
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Ingredient for later sharing learning material between teachers
Industry-Education working group established
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On-going discussions about what education industry need

9. Interactive learning in international environment:
A few examples into the future
• Bring the discussion teacher/student to a higher intellectual level
• Teachers will have a different role than traditionally
• ”Movie acting” as base; ”Theatre discussion” between ”more equals”
o But: Not ”replace the teacher”!
o And: The students are responsible for their learning
Interactive education with
3D lecture
MCQ and exercises
Podcast: CSP / Turbo
Filmed lectures
Filmed tutorial
Study visits
Remote lab exercises
Control panel
Filmed lab
Exercises-hints
Different media
Zoom by user
IPad
3D Smart Phone
Web camera

10. InnoEnergy-wide teacher/student-integration
Transfers education into Future Job-skills
Student-centered example in action:
The “Energy Learning Theatre”
Global
Project of the Year
Teacher
Audience
Entrepreneurship:
• ”Virtual” incubator
• Filmed & on-line business cases and mentoring
Goal:
• Market oriented energy education
• Transfer education into modern job-skills
• World-leading in energy education
• Bring higher education down into high-schools
Students action
Student success

11. General
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InnoEnergy Education has been very actively involved in the SET-plan
Education and Training
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All 7 MSc Programs and 6 PhD Tracks have gone through the very detailed
EIT-Label process, with special emphasize on the innovation,
entrepreneurship and business creation in energy education
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InnoEnergy is now confident to ”reach out” with the proposed educational
model and discuss with non-InnoEnergy partners
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Excellent education (key to a future sustainable development) and Capacity
building in the EIT-Label spirit can be performed in collaboration between
InnoEnergy and the Maghrenov partners in Africa
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13. Student Successes
HULT Global
– Here I would like to Case Challenge: April 2012
add some more photos
2010 intake SELECT Students 2nd Prize
with ”student successes”
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14. 58’000 students
from 175 countries
No academic credits though
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15. 1 Euro Lamp Slides
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16. HULT Team Slides
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17. Example: Project Rescue
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